Category Archives: Wordpress

OpenAid WordHack

By John | Published July 19, 2010

A WordHack to create a WordPress site importing UK Aid data

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WordCamp UK 2010

By John | Published July 19, 2010

I attended my second WordCamp UK at the weekend, held this year in Manchester. The (un)conference was attended by around 200 people, and was held in the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. Like last year, the main benefit to me was to meet the key people in the UK’s WordPress community (in the flesh rather [...]

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Christian Engineers in Development

By John | Published June 5, 2010

CED are a small UK charity that supports communities in the developing world with technical expertise.

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Widget discoveries

By John | Published January 30, 2010

I’ve been really impressed recently with a couple of WordPress plugins and widgets, and have used them successfully in a recent project (more about that later). Widget Logic Alan Trewartha’s Widget Logic plugin adds a control to all widgets allowing you to use conditional tags to control which page the widget appears on. This is [...]

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A few of the tools I use

By John | Published October 18, 2009

I have had a MacBook Pro for a few months now, and I’ve found a few favourite tools for WordPress development. I’m open to other recommendations, if there’s anything you’ve found particularly useful. Development Environment XAMPP provides me with the right Apache and MySQL environment for my test sites. It makes it easy to use [...]

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